Small People - Big Waves (10)

When Andrew Larochelle, an 17-year-old Ohio Eagle Scout, received the flag that he had requested to be flown over the White House, he discovered that the reference to God on the certificate had been removed. Larochelle was planning to give it to his grandfather, but that vital element was missing. Andrew wrote to his congressman and succeeded in influencing the Architect of the Capitol to reverse the ban on religious expressions on flag certificates; they concluded the personalized message belongs to the individual and is not a public matter. While only being a high school student, Andrew Larochelle stood up for something he believed in and took the matter right on up to Capitol Hill, even though he was just a kid like the rest of us at W.A. Seemingly insignificant people matter a whole lot. In the words of Dr. Seuss, "A person is a person, no matter how small."

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